Let ’s be honest : While humanity has done a destiny to sustain the arts , humans themselves make for a painful live audience . If they ’re not cough or talking or pluck their nose , they ’re probably tapping at their phones . On Monday , Barcelona ’s Liceu opera house house offer an intriguing root to this problem , host a performance of Puccini ’s “ Crisantemi ” forhundreds of beautiful , silent plants .
Barcelona ’s Liceu Opera House reopened its doors for the first time in over three months to hold a concert for an audience of most 2,300 mansion plantshttps://t.co/oqFJjRF44gpic.twitter.com/U6ri9lyEzJ
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Sadly , an resultant press releasemakes it readable that the concert was for the welfare of human ( and not vegetal ) observers , describing it as “ [ bringing ] us nigher to something as essential as our relationship with nature . ” The opera home ’s promise to donate the plants to 2,292 frontline healthcare worker only further reassert the project ’s fundamentally anthropocentric goal .
It ’s not like plants could n’t hear a concert . A growing ( heh ) body of inquiry indicates thatplants are more perceptivethan many people realize , react to phone , scent , and even equal . At the same clock time , over-the-top claims about plant sensory faculty advertise by pseudoscientific works like 1973 ’s The Secret Life of Plants havehung like a drear cloud over the fieldfor decades .
Drawing on dubitable experimentation with a polygraph , the best - selling Bible suggested that plants liked certain case of music more than others and could read human minds . Once planted in the brain of the public , a numeral ofplant - theme melodic workssprouted from this gimcrackery , including 1976 ’s Mother Earth ’s Plantasia , an apart , all charming record album of loopy synth tunes .
There is n’t any scientific evidence that plants bonk what you ’re thinking , prefer classical music to rock n ’ roll , or can , say , read a web log spot like this one . Still , it ’s merriment to opine a Earth where an artist can reach out and connect with something as patient and reassuring as a flora . Would n’t it be so much easier to state ourselves if no other human being had to be involved ?
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